A follow-up to the volume "Discovering the Principles of Mechanics 1600-1800. Essays by David Speiser" (Birkhäuser 2008), this volume contains the essays of David Speiser on relationships between science, history of science, history of art and philosophy.
Author(s): Kim Williams (editor)
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 166
Crossroads: History ofScinece, History of Art
Contents
Foreword
Editor’s Note
The Symmetry of the Ornament on a Jewel of the Treasure of Mycenae
Arab and Pisan Mathematics in the Piazza dei Miracoli
Architecture, Mathematics and Theology in Raphael’s Paintings
What can the Historian of Science Learn from the Historian of the Fine Arts?
The Importance of Concepts for Science
Remarks on Space and Time in Newton, Leibniz, Euler and in Modern Physics
The Book and its Position in Weyl’s Work
Clifford A. Truesdell’s Contributions to the Euler and the Bernoulli Editions
Publishing Complete Works of the Great Scientists: An International Undertaking
The History of Science at the Crossroads of the Pathways towards Philosophy and History
Index of Names
